Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused the country of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism.
Oh, so this is the first time he's heard any of this crap? Bullshit. Complete...utter...bullshit.
As video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has widely aired on television and the Internet, Obama responded by posting a blog about his relationship with Wright and his church, Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, on the Huffington Post. Wright brought Obama to Christianity, officiated at his wedding, baptized his daughters and inspired the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope."
So are you gonna buy Obama's "I hardly knew the guy!"?????? If so then you are a chump....or an anti-Semite.
In a sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Wright suggested the United States brought on the attacks.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Why didn't Obama just put Ward Churchill on his campaign staff and have done with it?
In a 2003 sermon, he said blacks should condemn the United States.
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
2003?????????!!!!?? And ALL of this is news to Obama???
Bullshit again.
He also gave a sermon in December comparing Obama to Jesus [ed. Gee, you don't say?], promoting his candidacy and criticizing his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright told a cheering congregation. "Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger."
And, remember, it was the Clintons who were the race baiters.
And, even after all of this garbage is out there Obama has the audacity to say he won't "repudiate the man."
Obama told MSNBC that he would not repudiate Wright as a man, describing him as "like an uncle" who says something that he disagrees with and must speak out against. He also said he expects his political opponents will use video of the sermons to attack him as the campaign goes on.
You have listened to this man "preach" for TWENTY YEARS and you never noticed anything wrong????? In fact you made him a member of your campaign, which is disturbingly well stocked with Israel haters already, don't ya think?? And if any opponent mentions the anti-American hate the not-so-good Reverend is teaching as God's word it is an "attack"????
Well, you know what Senator Obama?? Reverend Wright is a hateful son-of-a-bitch and if you can't recognize that fact then you are unqualified to be President of the United States, or even a Senator from the great state of Illinois. The fact you are representing the "Land of Lincoln" now is quickly becoming a national disgrace.
You know, I've met plenty of people in my life who hold dodgy opinions and who wouldn't hold up well to public scrutiny. Funny thing is, I wouldn't make any of them my spiritual advisor.
I'm sorry, but anyone who still tries to claim that Obama is the "moderate" choice is an idiot.
UPDATE:
Here is an example of a completely wrongheaded apologia for Obama.
I tried to responded over there, but Donklephant is always buggy when I try to comment from home. Here is what I tried to post:
We are all being asked to believe that Barrack Obama listened to this man for 20 years, made him his spiritual advisor, gave him a role in his campaign, and had no idea he has been saying this type of stuff for at least 7 years??
Who is that stupid?
Does this mean that Obama supports every position Wright espouses? Of course not. But it does raise serious questions about Obama's judgement, and just what kind of garbage Obama is comfortable associating himself with. Wright's overt anti-Israel (and I feel anti-Semitic) feelings will certainly give Jewish voters pause coming as it does so hard on the heels of the Powers debacle.
And since we are going on about what the "Christian" response should be, it is also expected that those who have done wrong admit their wrongdoing in the presence of those whom they have wronged. It strains credulity that Obama knew nothing of Rev. Wright's "teachings". Sen. Obama has thus wronged us all by listening to it and staying silent. He has also wronged us all by claiming he never heard a thing.
I've found the following assesments to be more sensible:
Obama’s Albatross
The Audacity of Hate
Obama is still defending Wright, and very lamely (Wright's "on the brink of retirement;" he's made "some controversial statements" in the past; his statements are being "cherry picked"). Wright wasn't near retirement in 2001 when he blamed 9/11 on the U.S; nor was he near retirement in 2003 when he said God should "damn America." And the statements at issue aren't merely "controversial" or "just wrong"; they are deplorable.
Worst of all is Obama's suggestion that Wright is the victim of "cherry picking." Wright's statment span a full range of issues including (just to mention some that have come to light so far) America's treatment of its citizens (some are treated as less than human); America's overall approach to the world (horrible enough to deserve 9/11); Israel and Palestine (Israel commits war crimes with U.S. assistance); World War II (it was criminal for the U.S. to bring the war with Japan to a successful conclusion the way it did); and HIV (he suspects the U.S. government of helping to spread the virus). As ABC News said, its "review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S." And let's not forget Wright's decision to honor Louis Farrakhan.
So there's no cherry-picking occurring here. Furthermore, the cherry-picking defense, even when plausible, has never been accepted when it comes to racism. Don Imus, for example, has received widespread condemnation for very occasional statements that showed racial insensitivity. Trent Lott was condemned for one statement praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.
Plus, QandO discovers that Obama is indeed lying, or he is the victim of the worst coincidence in human history, when he claims he never heard any of Wright's "questionable" opinions before.
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